Haredi draft

Haredi protesters block Jerusalem highway in protest against draft-dodger arrest orders

The police explained that rioters began to disrupt the order by blocking the traffic lanes near the String Bridge at the city's entrance.

Police declared the haredi protests illegal.
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 A soldier from the primarily Orthodox and haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Netzah Yehuda Battalion during a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, June 11, 2025.

IDF warns of extreme manpower shortage as MKs clash over haredi draft bill

 Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, central Israel, April 28, 2025

Nearly 30 haredi draft dodgers detained at Ben-Gurion Airport on way to Uman


Cannot explain how Netanyahu is avoiding haredi IDF draft issue, Edelstein says

Ex-FADC chair Yuli Edelstein says Netanyahu is ignoring the draft issue, warns IDF strength at risk without continuous haredi recruitment.

MK Yuli Edelstein attends a House committee meeting at the Knesset, August 4, 2025; illustrative.

Don't let the gov't fall: Israel needs unity, not division - opinion

Our children deserve more than vengeance. They deserve healing, stability, and hope. They deserve to see that even in crisis, their leaders can stand together.

 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

Tensions with ultra-Orthodox are second most divisive conflict in Israeli society, poll finds

The poll also shows how 83% of Israeli Jews support ensuring freedom of religion, namely, the freedom for both secular and religious citizens to live according to their own worldview. 

 An illustrative image of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli Jews near a sign for an IDF recruiting office.

Haredi faction protests military draft, block Highway 4 in Bnei Brak area

The protests, led by hardline political organization Peleg Yerushalmi, were declared illegal by the police, who said they would begin dispersing the crowd shortly.

Haredi protesters demonstrating against the IDF draft law blocking roads, September 11, 2025.

First haredi draft-dodger arrested on his way to Uman

Last week, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara instructed that the draft obligation be enforced on young men seeking to travel to Uman, and that they be arrested if necessary.

 Protesters demonstrating against the High Court ruling calling for yeshiva students to draft to the IDF, June 30, 2024.

Israeli opposition lawmaker: Coalition ‘is reviving irrelevant 2022 text to appease ultra-Orthodox’

MK Efrat Rayten Marom warns that the proposed draft law ignores army needs as the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee intensifies the debate.

The Democrats MK Efrat Rayten at a conference of the Israel Bar Association in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024.

Haredi draft law revisions: Knesset FADC discusses reducing exemption age from 26

The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee wrapped three days of stormy talks on the haredi draft bill, focusing on whether to lower the exemption age of 26.

A meeting to discuss updated sections of the controversial haredi (ultra-Orthadox) conscription law took place on Tuesday at the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on September 9th, 2025.

Haredi donors: Stop funding division, support national service and unity within Israel - comment

Instead of promoting division, funding one population to sit while another is sent repeatedly to Gaza and the West Bank, philanthropy could promote love of Israel.

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at Ramot junction, near the entrance to Jerusalem, September 8, 2025.

There is no ‘crime of Torah study’: Haredi lies about draft dodger arrests - opinion

When haredi leaders and media outlets resort to hyperbole or even deliberate falsehoods, it undermines, rather than advances, meaningful progress in this vital national conversation.

POLICE CONFRONT haredi demonstrators to stop them from blocking a road amid a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who had failed to comply with an army recruitment order, at Beit Lid junction last month.

High Court: Haredi students with unsettled military status won't get national insurance discounts

Yeshiva students who have not settled their status with the military or procured a valid exemption will not be eligible for relevant discounts on national insurance.

 Haredim protest against the IDF draft outside Tel Hashomer recruitment base, April 28. 2025.

War Diary: Religious warfare - opinion

Professor Chomsky, as much as I admire many of your other criticisms, the criticism about Israel seems to be a blind spot in your desire to be rational and fair.

 Ultra orthodox Jewish men protest at construction site in Yehud, claiming the construction site is on Jewish graves, on May 27, 2025.